1/ One of the best things I did in 2020 was to join a growth marketing program called @growclass
I’d seen it hover around online, I saw some friends talking about it. But I thought, wow, that looks great but it’s too expensive for me at the moment.
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2/ Then I kept coming back and getting more nervous because the more I looked at it the more I wanted to join.
It finally came to a point where I felt an irresistible urge to join the program. And I remember I was on the landing page 10 minutes before the program closed.
3/ And I immediately thought to myself: “I need to learn how to make people interested in career coaching feel like Growclass made me feel just now”.
4/ Then I tried to think about it as an investment. “If Growclass helps me gain 10 more students over the next 12 months, it will pay for itself.”
5/ Well things have changed significantly since then.
I was inspired by others to raise my prices significantly. Now my prices are triple what they were when I first started (and waaaay undercharging).
But the copywriting and website tear downs have made a big change for me.
6/ One thing I didn’t expect to take away from @growclass was all the incredible community-building ideas and practices, beautiful content, and welcome packages you get.
It inspired me to build better resources for my programs.
7/ But most of all, one thing that I got that was easily the most useful part of the whole experience was support and community.
As a solo founder, it’s extremely lonely, whether you’re seeing wins or struggles.
Not too many people in my life really “get it”
8/ Growclass gave me a place to celebrate my wins, and share my struggles and taught me how to measure and learn from my failures.
9/ So if you’re on the fence, the program was a HUGE investment for me, and was a hard pill to swallow, but I wouldn’t be where I am today without it.
10/ In my first cohort, I had 3 students paying $250 each.
In my second, I had 10 students paying $400-525 each.
Today I’m about to close my next cohort starting on Saturday January 9th with 10 students paying $650-750 each.
11/ So my initial goal of getting 10 extra students over the next year (at $250 each to justify the $2500 CAD cost of @growclass).
12/ Instead what happened is my program changed and grew and I met my goals in different and much better ways!
Largely due to my shift in language and copywriting and how I talk about my programs (which is language I now use on my sales calls too).
13/ So if you’re on the fence, take a look and try to ask yourself “what outcome do I need to justify buying this course” and coming up with a plan for yourself.
1/ Hey Twitter, have you applied to 157 jobs this year and gotten a handful of interviews and still not a single offer?
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2/ It’s been a rough year for many of us and being unemployed is a huge added stressor to that.
Here are a few of the main issues I’ve seen with students in my program.
3/ ISSUE #1
You’re limiting yourself to one single strategy - applying on job boards.
Job boards have a really low success rate. Unless your resume and skill set is really outstanding, you’re competing against HUNDREDS of other applicants and your chances are low.
@stefanpalios and I have some really exciting news. In many of my career coaching discussions, a lot of what came up was the fact that many people have started freelancing.
2/ First, I got my first 4 paying students in my first cohort. We've had our first two classes so far and it has been so incredible.
The format has generally been:
1- Introductions/Check-Ins/Learnings 2- Agenda for the Day 3- Lesson + Interactive Workshop 4- Homework
3/ Every week, I've been taking my outlined curriculum and building out the slide deck in @canva (just so beautifully easy) to prepare and refine the module and presentation for the week.
I try to make the presentations a combination of lecture + workshop + accountability.
2/ By doing that, I was able to COMPLETELY unplug from work for the whole 9 days!
- Disabled work calendars
- Logged out of work emails from my phone and computer
- Logged out of SLACK (big one)
- Logged out of Zoho
So I was able to fully enjoy my vacation.
3/ Coming back to work this morning, I was confident things were well-handled, but I was still curious about what I’d see when I logged back into work emails and Slack.
1/ I don’t have many people I know who are at the same stage of early entrepreneurship as I am but Twitter friends, I have you, so I wanted to share a bit about my story of the early stages of building @joinclearcareer, as well as some of my biggest fears and recent milestones 🙌
2/ As I’ve mentioned before, a few years ago I started a Facebook group called the ClearCareer Peer Mentorship Community (well originally a Slack group actually but that didn’t take).
3/ My aim for the group was to create a community where job seekers would share resources, ask for help, celebrate wins, share their struggles and more.